We have also teamed with some select artists to share works and demonstrate how art has been a healing process to them. Please click on the name of any of our featured artists belowfor more information:

Meet these amazing artists at our Opening Reception Fundraiser on November 10th from 6 to 8 PM which features a wine and cheese reception hosted by our favorite host, Ms. Daisey Lopez, a performance art work شفا یابی کا پانی : Svadisthana – Gateway of Healing and Transformation by Neena Massey, a short movement art work by John Ollom, entitled Composition #2, the showing of the award winning short film Pierced Heart and music by DJ Boni D. Meet the artists and discover how their art moves you.

Save even more with an with a Festival Pass which gives you access to the Opening Reception Fundraiser, workshops, discussions and presentations for $160. Choose your pass or Fundraiser from the drop down menu below.

Festival Fundraiser and Passes

In addition to the gallery being open to all visitors on weekdays, we will hold special workshops, panel discussions and classes at the following times:

Create your own art with Lisa Samalin – Join our extraordinary installation artist, Lisa Samalin as she explains her creative process and helps each participant create their own personal diorama. Please bring a photograph of yourself from any age infancy to the present that you can cut out. If possible bring a photo that shows your whole body but if not we can work with whatever you bring..

Tuesday, November 13th – Naked Drawing + Naked Movement 6:30 – 9:30 PM
Start your evening with some nude figure drawing (everyone is nude) led by Shungaboy. As men sit in the outside circle sketching, John Ollom will then lead a simple movement exercise for men to make movement sculptures with each others nude bodies. We will then explore more complex shapes and movement experimentation in the center of the circle.

Wednesday, November 14th – Writing About What You’re Afraid to Write About6:30 PM to 8:00 PM with Richard Jeffrey Newman
Why write about something you fear? To name it and, in naming it, to gain control over it. To learn how not to be afraid. Or, perhaps, to learn how to live with fear. Why try to make poetry from your fear, to make it beautiful with words? Not the straightforward loveliness of surfaces, but the beauty that puts us in touch with the full depth of what it means to be human, that does not force us to choose between it and ugliness, but rather allows us to experience both beauty and ugliness as they always already exist within us, and in the world around us. Why? Because while a poem may pronounce judgment on what we fear, it does not judge us for fearing it. Poetry is not politics, and it is not therapy, but finding the words that will make your fear beautiful is an act of hope and, therefore, of a kind of healing. In this workshop, we will explore strategies for bringing that hope and that healing into our lives and our work, whether as poets and writers, or as people who simply want to find ways of saying what they haven’t, till now, been able to say.

Space is limited for each workshop so please register early. Each session will be $20 or get an All Workshop Pass for $60. Choose the individual workshops you want to attend from the drop down list below. When finished please remember to complete your purchase in the shopping cart.

Workshops

If you are unable to attend the event and would like to make a donation please use the donate button below.

Ollom Art is a division of the not-for-profit 501(c)3 corporation, Prismatic Productions, Inc., which was formed in 2003 to advance public interest in and understanding of issues of diversity; to educate, instruct and present to the public diverse art forms through performance, educational classes, symposiums, lectures, festivals, and similar activities; and, to provide artists of diverse backgrounds and forms with a forum to expose their works to the public.